Socialists And Subsidies
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From Our N.Z, Correspondent
Auckland, Feb. 2.
"DEFORE the N.Z. Government can provide a subsidy to help British shipping in the Pacific it wants to be sure that conditions on the ships are reasonable for the crews, as well as the passengers,” said the Prime Minister (Mr. M. J. Savage) in commenting on recent cable messages. ‘‘We are anxious that British shipping should have a place in the Pacific. We naturally want to do anything in our power to see that that is made possible. At the same time we are concerned that conditions on the ships should be satisfactory and we want to know what we are expected to sub sidise.”
EDITORIAL NOTE.—It never seems to occur to these Socialist politicians that it is not so much a question of providing luxurious trimmings for seamen’s jobs, as of retaining the jobs them selves. If British ships are not subsidised, they will go out, and the crews with them. Time enough to talk about “conditions” after the ship ping line is saved from extinction.